The Buzz: The Numbers Speak, Jan. 2

Dec. 29, 2012

90 The percent of Iowa still under “severe” or “extreme” drought. The snow we all shoveled out from before Christmas helped some — the “severe drought” category was lowered to 58.4 percent from 69.1 percent and the “extreme drought” status which covered 41.8 percent of Iowa a week ago now covers 32.1 percent.

23 If you read e-books, you’re in this percentage of readers according to a new Pew Internet and American Life study. Print book readers fell to 67 percent from 72 percent. Hey, no one knows you were reading “Fifty Shades of Grey” if it was an e-book, right?